In the spring of 1942, German submarines controlled the waters off North Carolina with 52 known sinkings. The attacks were so severe that the army decided to install guns at Cape Lookout. However, the guns got stuck in the sand, and even with modern equipment, the army could not budge them. Moore recounts how Denard Davis of the nearby village of Davis moved the guns.

\"The Freedom Road,\" a mural of three panels covering a space forty-two feet wide and six feet high, hangs in the Orange County Historical Museum in Hillsborough. The mural portrays three important events in the early history of Orange County. Kenneth W. Whitsett, a muralist of historical subjects who is without peer in North Carolina, painted it.